Why is Japan called the most European of Asian countries?

The fact is that although Japan lived in isolation until 1868, then she began reforms that went down in history as the “Meiji Era”. They lasted from 1868 to 1912. Emperor Mutsuhito succeeded in a short period of time to terminate the backward Asian country into states with the indicators of a European country of the second echelon (like Italy). By 1914, Japan had the best industry in Asia, a parliament, a constitution, and a European higher education. The country even got involved in the colonial redistribution of the world, for example, in 1910 it captured Korea, and earlier, in 1895 and 1905, it won victories over China and Russia. Japan had a European army and navy. The same course was followed by Japan and the entire XX century. The country was the first Asian country to achieve GDP per capita in European countries, and it is not an oil economy like the UAE or Kuwait, but an industrial state.